Initial report on Malaysian flight 17 due next week

Associated Press

5:56 AM, Sep 4, 2014

6:53 AM, Sep 4, 2014

Dutch investigators say they will release a preliminary report into the Malaysian Air flight 17 crash next Tuesday. M-H 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine near the Russian border July 17. http://bit.ly/1ps7CUX

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Luggage and wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 lie in a field on July 22, 2014 in Grabovo, Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack. (Rob Stothard/Getty Images)

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THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS - Dutch authorities investigating the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine say they will publish a preliminary report next Tuesday into the disaster that killed all 298 people on board.

The Dutch Safety Board says the report "will present factual information based on sources available" to its investigators.

Those sources include satellite imagery, radar details and data from the plane's "black box" recorders. Dutch investigators have not visited the site in conflict-ravaged Ukraine where wreckage of the plane plunged to the ground on July 17.

The jet was shot down while flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur over an area of Ukraine controlled by pro-Russia separatists.

Tuesday's report will set out what investigators believe happened, but will not apportion blame.

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